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My domain redirects to a strange website. What's going on?

Posted on August 10, 2019

My domain redirects to a strange website. Some random ip addresses just appeared in my dns records. After deleting them, my domain responded properly - for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes my domain redirects to the same site again. This time without show the random dns records in my dashboard. What’s going on? This is not good…



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Hi lxblvnc,

If your DNS records are being changed, it would mean someone has gotten access of your account. I would suggest changing your password right away!

Once you do, monitor your account and see if the DNS records still change.

Kind regards, Kalin D.

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